Devarius, Matthew

, a learned Greek scholar of
the sixteenth century, was born in the island of Corfou, of
a catholic family. At the age of eight he was taken to
Rome by John Lascaris, and placed with other eastern
youths in the Greek college, which had been just established. Having made great progress in this language,
cardinal Rodolphi gave him the care of his library, which
office he held for fifteen years, and in that time he compiled an index to Eustathius’s commentary on Homer, for
which pope PaulIII. gave him a pension; and PaulIV.
who continued this pension, made him corrector of the
GreekMss. in the Vatican. On the death of cardinal
Rodolphi, Marc -AntonyColonna, who was afterwards
cardinal, became scholar to Devarius for three years in
the Greek language. He was afterwards patronized by
the cardinal Farnese; and died in his service, about the
end of the sixteenth century, in the seventieth year of his
age. By order of pope Pius V. he translated the catechism of the council of Trent into Greek; but the work
for which he is best known is entitled “De Particulis
Graecae linguae liber particularis,” of which there have
been many editions, the first published by his nephew,
Peter Devarius, at Rome, in 1558, 4to, and reprinted at
London, 1657, 12mo Amsterdam, 1700 and 1718, &c. &c. 2

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